Elliott Yamin Survives Earthquake in Chile

A former contestant on American Idol was in the country of Chile at the time of the massive 8.8 earthquake which hit about 200 miles from the capital.

Elliott Yamin had just finished playing at a concert with his band when the massive quake struck, and managed to tweet of his experience.

“I just escaped w my life, from an 8.3 earthquake!!!…is everybody ok?…where was the [epicenter]?” Yamin wrote on Twitter.

His tweets were quickly picked up by major news outlets, and he became a focal point for ABC and CNN regarding the situation in the country.

“I was on the sixth floor of our hotel … I was actually tweeting at the time that the earthquake struck,” Yamin said in a CNN interview. “It was obviously without warning … just a very abrupt kind of swaying back and forth. The building was swaying back and forth, as was my room.

“Stuff was starting to fall off of the wall. The light was starting to flicker on and off. “I stood up and headed towards my doorway … I was yelling very frantically.”

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